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Holland School scrapbooks
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Held at: Historical Society of Montgomery County [Contact Us]1654 Dekalb Street, Norristown, PA, 19401
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of Montgomery County. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Martha Holland Day School at Curren Terrace in Norristown, Pennsylvania opened around 1930, offering kindergarten, primary, and elementary schooling. By 1950, its name was shortened to the Holland School, and it was billed as "A Modern School for Boys and Girls from Nursery School and Kindergarten through the Sixth Grade, recognizing individual differences." As of 2012, the Holland School was still operating as Tot Time Child Development Center.
Bibliography:
Quoted text from document in collection, 1949-1950.
This collection consists of scrapbooks put together by classes, with thank-you notes to teachers, photographs, and descriptions of and ephemera from class trips. There are also some loose newspaper clippings and greeting cards in the collection, as well as three notebooks from class secretaries.
- Publisher
- Historical Society of Montgomery County
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
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